At 9:34 AM -0700 8/15/10, Ray Dillinger wrote: >I'm under the impression that <2048 keys are now insecure mostly due >to advances in factoring algorithms that make the attack and the >encryption effort closer to, but by no means identical to, scaling >with the same function of key length.
You are under the wrong impression, unless you are reading vastly different crypto literature than the rest of us are. RSA-1024 *might* be possible to break in public at some point in the next decade, and RSA-2048 is a few orders of magnitude harder than that. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com